{"id":1093,"date":"2006-02-28T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/28\/a-toast-bruce-gordon\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T07:11:00","slug":"a-toast-bruce-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/28\/a-toast-bruce-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"A TOAST, BRUCE GORDON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nerfyoung.blogspot.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" align=\"left\" title=\"Bruce Gordon and Ed Young receiving gifts from Christian Nerf's Stellenbosch students\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/gordon-young.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"Bruce Gordon and Ed Young receiving gifts from Christian Nerf's Stellenbosch students\" \/><\/a>Some cheeky brats over in Cape Town had their students buy beer for them and wrap them as gifts, all in the name of contemporary art. Pictured: Bruce Gordon and Ed Young receiving gifts from Christian Nerf&#8217;s Stellenbosch students.<\/p>\n<p>More pix available on their new blog, that I hope goes beyond this project: <a href=\"http:\/\/nerfyoung.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/nerfyoung.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why didn&#8217;t I think of that? <\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; I&#8217;d prefer the URL to be YoungNerf&#8230;.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Gordon and Ed Young receiving gifts from Christian Nerf&#8217;s Stellenbosch students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,9,8,2,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-pop-culture","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-hD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1198,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/06\/the-last-braai\/","url_meta":{"origin":1093,"position":0},"title":"The Last Braai","author":"nathaniel","date":"06 June 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Via artheat:You are cordially invited to THE LAST BRAAI The launch of Ed Young and Christian Nerf's NO PROBLEM IN AFRICAIn conjunction with ROUTES... 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